Negativity

[MooneyMitch]

9 minutes ago, Blue on Top said:

Isn't "negativity" the theme of 2020?

Only if you allow it to be.

[Blue on Top]

26 minutes ago, MooneyMitch said:

Only if you allow it to be.

Not me, personally, @MooneyMitch.  I'm still doing everything I possibly can ... not saying that it's working, but ...    As one of Mahatma Ghandi's sayings goes, "Learn as if you will live forever.  Live as if you will die tomorrow."

[MooneyMitch]

49 minutes ago, Blue on Top said:

 We totally redesigned with metal foot/hand holds every 6".  And, all of this is with the airplane not gyrating like it would be in reality. 

Now that’s a positive thing ! 

[MooneyMitch]

3 minutes ago, Blue on Top said:

Not me, personally, @MooneyMitch.  I'm still doing everything I possibly can ... not saying that it's working, but ...    As one of Mahatma Ghandi's sayings goes, "Learn as if you will live forever.  Live as if you will die tomorrow."

A wise man once said......

[MooneyMitch]

Here are some folks having a very negative day..........................please do not laugh as this is very, very negative stuff..........                     

[MikeOH]

5 hours ago, EricJ said:

Can't keep it real, so now things have to get complex.

Uh, -1 is not a complex number.

Keepin' it real

[MooneyMitch]

2 hours ago, Blue on Top said:

Isn't "negativity" the theme of 2020?

Out of negativity comes lots of positivity.  

[Hank]

1 hour ago, MooneyMitch said:

Here are some folks having a very negative day..........................please do not laugh as this is very, very negative stuff..........                     

 

I'm quite positive that I've never had a day go quite as negative as any of these!

[aviatoreb]

9 minutes ago, Hank said:

I'm quite positive that I've never had a day go quite as negative as any of these!

Never say that out loud!

[Hank]

Just now, aviatoreb said:

Never say that out loud!

I didn't say anything, I just typed it. Not saying things have never gone pear-shaped for me, just not quite to the degree shown in that awful / funny video.

[cliffy]

On dark days think-

"The longer you go without a bite the closer you are to the next one"

 A Confident Angler

Just remember-

You chose your position in life today by what YOU did yesterday!

[EricJ]

1 hour ago, MikeOH said:

Uh, -1 is not a complex number.

Keepin' it real

Does it stop being complex when the imaginary part is zero?

Is a real number not real when it's zero?   

[aviatoreb]

7 hours ago, Hank said:

I didn't say anything, I just typed it. Not saying things have never gone pear-shaped for me, just not quite to the degree shown in that awful / funny video.

Ok never type that stuff out loud.

[Jerry 5TJ]

Ok, here’s a real negative— one of my colleagues at the flight school died a couple of days ago.  Collapsed in the office.  Age 33.  Wife and 2 young kids.  A bad day.  

[aviatoreb]

2 hours ago, Jerry 5TJ said:

Ok, here’s a real negative— one of my colleagues at the flight school died a couple of days ago.  Collapsed in the office.  Age 33.  Wife and 2 young kids.  A bad day.  

I am very sorry to hear this Jerry.  All best wishes to his family and to you too.

Sincerely,

Erik

[bonal]

That is so sad Jerry,. It just goes to show we never know when our time here is going to end don't put off your dreams make them happen as soon as you are able.  God speed.

[Blue on Top]

@Jerry 5TJSo sorry for your loss and for his young family, too.  Textron (Cessna) lost a young pilot not long ago ... an ultra-distance runner, nonetheless.  We never know.  Every day is precious. 

[PT20J]

On 8/6/2020 at 5:07 PM, Blue on Top said:

Ironically, it's not as easy to get out of an airplane as you think it might be.  Test airplanes for decades had a knotted rope running longitudinally to get the crew from their stations to the exit ... to jump out.  Before the Citation X flew, we took the front half of a Citation III fuselage and rotated it vertically down to see how long it would take to bail out.  Time ended up being measured in minutes ... not seconds.  We totally redesigned with metal foot/hand holds every 6".  And, all of this is with the airplane not gyrating like it would be in reality. 

If you weren’t so negative, you wouldn’t need a parachute 

[Blue on Top]

8 minutes ago, PT20J said:

If you weren’t so negative, you wouldn’t need a parachute 

OMG!  I am laughing sooooo hard right now!

This reminds me of a (now) very funny story that I hope you didn't have to be there to understand.  Anyhow, we (the Flight Test crews) had just finished up a long briefing on using our personal parachutes ... and their limitations.  Yes, our airplanes had parachutes, too, to return the pointy end to forward when it didn't want to be there.  Anyhow, at the end of our long brief, a young FTE asked one last question.  Addressing the instructor, the FTE said, "You've spent all this time talking about the first parachute.  Are you going to talk about the second parachute, if the parachute streamers or doesn't deploy correctly?"  The room went suddenly very, very quiet.  Nobody knew what to say.  After a few moments, the instructor gained his composure and said, "This is your second ride home.  You just bailed out of the first."  Great answer.  

[Blue on Top]

Are we there yet, Dad?

Dad: We're only 5 pages into a 75 page thread!  Slug Bug! 

[cliffy]

You only need a parachute because you have negative buoyancy in the air!

[PT20J]

I used to have an engineer working for me that was a skydiver. Whenever we would go on a business trip, he'd scout out the nearest drop zone and bring his rig which he didn't want to check as baggage, so he would carry it on. Got lots of interesting comments as he walked down the isle during boarding carrying a parachute. He always replied that there was no way he would fly on (insert whatever airline we were flying) without a parachute.

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[Blue on Top]

44 minutes ago, cliffy said:

You only need a parachute because you have negative buoyancy in the air!

We're still negatively buoyant with the chute.  Appropriately for this thread, it is drag that keeps the sudden stop at the end from being more than we can handle  

[cliffy]

Negative buoyancy is relative to drag   Inversely proportional

[bradp]

4 hours ago, Blue on Top said:

We're still negatively buoyant with the chute.  Appropriately for this thread, it is drag that keeps the sudden stop at the end from being more than we can handle  

... Which can be a real jerk